The weather was a little drier yesterday so we decided to walk Bredon Hill in Worcestershire.

Parking the car at Elmley Castle (there used to be a castle there) we stopped off at the local pub, the Queen Elizabeth, for a coffee and a mince pie. This is a lovely little place with an old English countryside feel to it. Wood, stone, thick carpet etc – things I like about an English pub. And it’s community owned.

I’m going to have to do this walk properly, with a proper planned route as I just can’t accurately describe where we went! Unfortunately I only captured the walk on my Garmin at the summit so before that my retelling won’t be up to scratch, I’m afraid.

The paths were quite muddy as you’d expect and there were very strong gusts blowing as we were reaching the north side of the hill. The weather did actually turn up there and so we were pelted with hail. Thankfully my new coat was up for the job.

The skies cleared southwards on the horizon once we’d walked past the Parsons Folly.

And now for the embarrassing part.. We didn’t take the turning we should have to do the loop and ended up in Westmancote! The loop had now increased in size and a journey back along the road would be 8.5 miles! And at 3pm this just wasn’t doable. And with no buses on a Sunday we were stuck – enter Uber. Thankfully this service is now operating in the area so we were taken back to the car at Elmley Castle. A small price to pay for a big mistake I say.

A quick debrief in the Queen Elizabeth pub over a tea and what was one of the best homemade sausage rolls I’ve ever eaten. Home. Relief.